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School safety commission misses the mark by ignoring guns

  • Written by F. Chris Curran, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos stated recently that guns are not a focus of a federal school safety commission meant to tackle school shootings.Africa Studio/www.shutterstock.com

A federal school safety commission that formed after the Parkland, Florida, school massacre won’t be focusing on guns.

That’s according to Secretary of...

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John McCain helped build a country that no longer reflects his values

  • Written by Elizabeth Sherman, Assistant Professor Department of Government, American University School of Public Affairs

Arizona Sen. John McCain – scion of Navy brass, flyboy turned Vietnam war hero and tireless defender of American global leadership – now faces terminal brain cancer.

I am a scholar of American politics. And I believe that, regardless of his storied biography and personal charm, three powerful trends in American politics thwarted...

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Tourism to the US is in a 'Trump slump' - truth or fiction?

  • Written by Bing Pan, Associate Professor of Tourism Management, Pennsylvania State University
Travel is up around the world -- but not to the US.Rawpixel.com/shutterstock

Are fewer people visiting the U.S. now that Trump is president?

Some have blamed the Trump administration for a sharp downturn in international tourist arrivals in 2017, as measured last September. A more recent revision of the numbers suggests that might not be accurate.

So...

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When does hungry become hangry?

  • Written by Jennifer MacCormack, Ph.D. Student in Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
You're ready to blow your top – but how much is due to your internal hunger and how much to external annoyances?perfectlab/Shutterstock.com

Have you ever been grumpy, only to realize that you’re hungry?

Feeling hangry has become a meme, even used in ads. But how does it work, psychologically?Snickers

Many people feel more irritable,...

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Bourdain, Spade suicides show how even those at the top can know the lows of depression

  • Written by Jonathan Rottenberg, Professor of Psychology, University of South Florida
Anthony Bourdain in a July 17, 2017, photo at the screening of 'An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.'Evan Agostin/Invision/AP Photos

We struggle to comprehend the loss of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. Sudden deaths are shocking. It’s doubly shocking when the deaths are by suicide. Sudden suicide by people who seemingly have it all:...

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Trump's presidency marks the first time in 24 years that the federal bench is becoming less diverse

  • Written by Rorie Solberg, Associate Professor of Political Science, Oregon State University
President Trump's judicial nominee Thomas Alvin Farr.AP Photo/Alex Brandon

President Donald Trump and his Republican allies in the Senate are pushing through nominations for federal judges at an unusually fast pace ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. That’s when the GOP could lose its majority and end the easy path to confirmation for...

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Detained immigrant children stay in shelters that are already full and aren't equipped for babies

  • Written by Dyana Mason, Assistant Professor of Planning, Public Policy and Management, University of Oregon
Women with children in their arms protested the separation of families seeking protection at U.S. borders, as DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen addressed a Senate subcommittee. AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

The Trump administration is deliberately taking immigrant children away from their parents. This practice, which has already elicited...

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Why did the television reboot become all the rage?

  • Written by Dr. James Francis, Jr., Lecturer, Department of English, Texas A&M University

Designer Yves Saint Laurent once said, “Fashions fade, style is eternal.”

The same could be said for television: When a popular show concludes, it lives on in syndication and Blu-ray. But recently, TV immortality has assumed a new form. Networks and streaming services are increasingly pulling from the past to flood the airwaves with...

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I visited the Rohingya camps in Myanmar and here is what I saw

  • Written by Cresa Pugh, Doctoral Student in Sociology & Social Policy, Harvard University
A camp for displaced Rohingyas in the city of Sittwe in western Myanmar.Cresa Pugh, CC BY

Myanmar recently claimed to have repatriated its first Rohingya refugee family. But, as an official from the United Nations noted, the country is still not safe for the return of its estimated 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees, who fled to Bangladesh in 2017...

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Mexico City's new airport is an environmental disaster but it could become a huge national park

  • Written by Gabriel Diaz Montemayor, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Texas at Austin
Mexico City's new Norman Foster-designed airport, seen here in a computer rendering, is visually striking but environmentally problematic.Presidencia de la República Mexicana CC-by-2.0, CC BY

Mexico City long ago outgrew the two-terminal Benito Juárez International Airport, which is notorious for delays, overcrowding and canceled...

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  1. Increased deaths and illnesses from inhaling airborne dust: An understudied impact of climate change
  2. Religion is uniquely human, but computer simulations may help us understand religious behavior
  3. Memo to President Trump: Better ties between North and South Korea should come first – then get rid of nukes
  4. Rules-based trade made the world rich. Trump's policies may make it poorer
  5. Why predicting suicide is a difficult and complex challenge
  6. G7 summit: Trump could be using advanced game theory negotiating techniques – or he's hopelessly adrift
  7. Trump could be using advanced game theory negotiating techniques – or he's hopelessly adrift
  8. To conserve ocean life, marine reserves need to protect species that move around
  9. Students need IT skills to compete in the new economy
  10. Neurons made from blood cells – a new tool for understanding brain diseases
  11. 'Jurassic Park' made a dinosaur-sized leap forward in computer-generated animation on screen, 25 years ago
  12. Trump scorns US media, but just try being a journalist in North Korea or Mexico
  13. The nuclear industry is making a big bet on small power plants
  14. How the Ford F-150 became king of cars
  15. Young people crossing the border alone face challenges in the US homes where they're placed
  16. Why Mister Rogers' message of love and kindness is good for your health
  17. Social Security’s future is safe
  18. De Podemos a Trump, el 'storytelling' explica la política mundial
  19. How far away was that lightning?
  20. Connected cars can lie, posing a new threat to smart cities
  21. Will a garbage revolt threaten Putin?
  22. How Korean boy band BTS toppled Asian stereotypes – and took America by storm
  23. Scientists are using DNA to study ocean life and reveal the hidden diversity of zooplankton
  24. Why Jefferson’s vision of American Islam matters today
  25. Migrants' latest health challenge: Scabies
  26. How female protagonists have changed – and stayed the same – in young adult fiction
  27. Trump may intervene in the power markets to keep coal and nuclear plants running. Does that make sense?
  28. Here’s why Trump’s new strategy to keep ailing coal and nuclear plants open makes no sense
  29. ¿Igualdad de género? Para las mujeres en política esto no existe
  30. California's jungle primary sets up polarized governor's race for November
  31. Leyes de deportación de Trump dejan terribles huellas psicológicas en los migrantes
  32. I want your (anonymized) social media data
  33. EPA staff say the Trump administration is changing their mission from protecting human health and the environment to protecting industry
  34. Why long-term separation from parents harms kids
  35. 4 charts showing why putting tariffs on your friends is a bad idea
  36. Microplastics may heat marine turtle nests and produce more females
  37. Why pregnant women with depression often slip through the cracks
  38. How a masculine culture that favors sexual conquests gave us today's 'incels'
  39. Why won't scientific evidence change the minds of Loch Ness monster true believers?
  40. ¿Marchar o migrar? Para los jóvenes en Venezuela, esa es la pregunta
  41. Trump may believe in the rule of law, just not the one understood by most American lawyers
  42. How corruption slows disaster recovery
  43. Free-range parenting gets legal protection in Utah – but should the state dictate how to parent?
  44. When did humans first learn to count?
  45. With federal funding for science on the decline, what's the role of a profit motive in research?
  46. I go to El Salvador despite the danger because the kids there need my medical expertise
  47. Only 1 in 4 women who have been sexually harassed tell their employers. Here's why they're afraid
  48. Syrian refugees in America: The forgotten psychological wounds of the stress of migration
  49. Robert Kennedy, improbable liberal hero
  50. Why the Supreme Court's 'gay wedding cake' ruling won't resolve religious freedom issues